Dr Liz Marles, president of the Royal Australia College of General Practitioners, said generalist medical practitioners should not be confused with GPs.

"They will mostly be hospital doctors and doctors still in training, they haven't yet got a specialty," Dr Marles said.

But the Australian Dental Association said the data was inconsistent with previous reports which put male earnings ahead of female earnings.

"There may be other reasons within the sample as to the disparity, such as the age cohort of the person sampled could range from inexperienced to experienced. Or they may be employed in a different setting with different employment terms and conditions," an ADA spokeswoman said.

Clare Buttner, spokeswoman for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, said people should be equally regarded for their work regardless of the occupation they choose.

"While there might be certain jobs or roles where women earn more than men, on the whole in every industry there's a gender pay gap that favours men, and that's the case even in female-dominated industries," Ms Buttner said.

The ABS data compares the average weekly earnings of non-managerial full-time employees.

The list includes jobs where women earn at least 10 per cent more than men on average.

In some cases women work more hours than men which contributes to the higher average wage. But in all cases women are paid at a higher rate per hour.